Australian Army Reserve

I give the call to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence.

Well, can I, uh, thank the member for her question and acknowledge her service in the Australian Army Reserve.

In the last financial year, eight thousand one hundred young Australians have enlisted in the Australian Defense Force.

This now takes the size of the full-time force to sixty-four thousand, the largest that it has been in a quarter of a century.

This is Steven Bornstein, Managing Director of Sightline Intelligence Australia, Vice President of Product and Engineering for their global operations team, and he's a non-executive director of Cyborg Dynamics Engineering.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Aerospace from Monash University, and he's also a commissioned Australian Army Reserve officer in the infantry since 2016.

He's spent eight to nine years industry experience working on the Nolca Active Missile Decoy upgrade program, and also with Rocket Lab and the MRH90 entry with Airbus.

Apart from all that, we've had some more recent news in the last couple of years, uh, and Athena, their, the AI program that he's been working on, was sold to Sightline in last year, and Sightline Applications has now closed a dealing with Akron in April this year.

The sort of deeper context for my service in the UK is...

My Australian Reserve Service is deeply important to me as it is for everyone who wears the uniform.

I first appointed in June of 2019 as I sought to commence my university studies the next year in February 2020.

I went through a little bit abnormally, I think, compared to most people in the sense that I knocked over sort of a TB every six months.